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The Woolff gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed French artist Michel Maly. The exhibition opening on 16th September 2010 will be Michel Maly s first solo exhibition in the UK. Michel Maly was born in Blois in 1936. He lives and works in his hometown of Montelimar, where in 2009 he was presented the keys to the city: La Médaille de la ville de Montelimar. Since his first exhibition held in Lyon in 1959, Michel Maly has successfully completed over 85 exhibitions worldwide. In 1968 he was awarded the prestigious Prix Feneon, the prize of the University of Paris. His works are to be found in important French and foreign collections. A number of Michel s artworks have been purchased by national museums as well as by regional museums in Lyon and Southern France. Michel Maly s work spans over five decades and he has had three books and a film dedicated to his long and distinguished career. The Woolff gallery is delighted to be presenting a fantastic collection of Michel Maly s artworks from his still lifes, seascapes, city and landscapes, to figurative cafe scenes. This will be the most comprehensive collection of works seen for many years. NICK WOOLFF Michel Maly
Michel Maly Michel Maly: The drawing for me is the food of the canvas which will give the canvas a truth. That is why, while I am painting in nature, I don t only look at it, but I also breathe it and listen to it, in order to become totally impregnated with it. Alain Girard, the Ministerial Curator of the Art Museum of Bagnols-sur-ceze writes about Maly s Venice paintings: Maly is less interested in the picturesque quality of the town than in the wonderful sight of the buildings, glittering in the light and reflecting in the water. The renound buildings loom through the light or through the mist in gradual shades. An intimate combination of architecture, water and sky. The massive structure of the buildings dissolves in humidity and distorts transmitting colours into music. Maly has succeeded in uniting the movements of visible things such as gondoliers or people walking and of invisible things such as light, wind and time. Costa Gavras, the film maker: I know only a few painters who have dared to use light so sensitively and passionately as Maly has; both are bound together without constraint. Dominique Douay a French writer (b.1944) wrote: Maly is for me an example of a novelist painter. His paintings are so many chapters, they do not just see Venice and the North Sea, they tell us about these landscapes and the creatures that inhabit.
4 Michel Maly Matin à Venise 20cm x 40cm. Oil on Canvas Michel Maly Palais à Venise 20cm x 40cm. Oil on Canvas Michel Maly Reflets à Venise 20cm x 40cm. Oil on Canvas
Michel Maly Venise 20cm x 40cm. Oil on Card Michel Maly Gondoliers 20cm x 40cm. Oil on Card Michel Maly Contre jour à Venise 30cm x 60cm. Oil on Canvas 5
Michel Maly Reflets jaunes à Venise 28cm x 28cm Oil on Card Michel Maly Venise jaune 30cm x 30cm Oil on Canvas 6
Michel Maly Matin d hiver à Venise 73cm x 92cm. Oil on Canvas Michel Maly Façades dorées à Venise 73cm x 92cm. Oil on Canvas 7
Michel Maly Fin d après midi à Venise 80cm x 80cm Oil on Canvas 8
Michel Maly Le Palais des Doges au loin 80cm x 80cm Oil on Canvas 9
0 Michel Maly Venise gris 80cm x 80cm Oil on Canvas
Michel Maly Circulation à Venise 100cm x 100cm Oil on Canvas
Michel Maly Le grand canal bleu 120cm x 120cm Oil on Canvas
Michel Maly Lumière voilée à Venise 100cm x 100cm Oil on Canvas
Michel Maly Le garçon au gilet rouge 20cm x 40cm. Oil on Canvas 4 Michel Maly Le garçon sur fond gris 20cm x 40cm. Oil on Canvas Michel Maly Jean 20cm x 40cm. Oil on Canvas
Michel Maly Café à Paris 20cm x 40cm. Oil on Canvas Michel Maly Garçon au rideau 20cm x 40cm. Oil on Canvas Michel Maly Le verre de vin 20cm x 40cm. Oil on Canvas 5
Michel Maly Cardinal 20cm x 40cm. Oil on Canvas Michel Maly Café rouge à Paris 28.5cm x 28.5cm. Oil on Card 6
Michel Maly Café parisien 30cm x 30cm. Oil on Canvas Michel Maly Pierre le garçon de café 20cm x 40cm. Oil on Canvas 7
8 Michel Maly Garçon de café 27cm x 46cm. Oil on Canvas Michel Maly Petit café bleu 20cm x 20cm. Oil on Card
Michel Maly Brasserie à Paris 73cm x 92cm. Oil on Canvas Michel Maly Café au tableau 46cm x 55cm. Oil on Canvas 9
0 Michel Maly Femme en jaune au café 65cm x 92cm. Oil on Canvas Michel Maly Deux garçons au café de Paris 30cm x 60cm. Oil on Canvas Michel Maly La femme en bleu 40cm x 80cm. Oil on Canvas
Michel Maly La brasserie parisienne à La Verrière 146cm x 114cm Oil on Canvas
Michel Maly Le café sombre 40cm x 80cm. Oil on Canvas Michel Maly Personnages au café 60cm x 100cm. Oil on Card Michel Maly Drapeaux à New York 20cm x 40cm. Oil on Canvas
Michel Maly Le taxi jaune à New York 20cm x 40cm. Oil on Canvas Michel Maly New York la nuit 65cm x 92cm. Oil on Canvas
Michel Maly Les pêcheurs à Venise contre jour 60cm x 30cm. Oil on Canvas 4
Michel Maly Soleil couchant 40cm x 20cm. Oil on Card Michel Maly Grand ciel mer du nord 50cm x 100cm. Oil on Canvas Michel Maly Voiles à contre-jour 40cm x 20cm. Oil on Card 5
Michel Maly En allant à Cortona 30cm x 30cm. Oil on Canvas Michel Maly Pin parasol en Toscane 30cm x 30cm. Oil on Canvas 6
Michel Maly Cancale, les parcs à huîtres 92cm x 73cm Oil on Canvas 7
Michel Maly Orage au Mont Saint Michel 162cm x 114cm. Oil on Canvas 8
Michel Maly Toscane en été 120cm x 120cm. Oil on Canvas 9
Michel Maly Bouquet de fleurs sur fond gris 80cm x 80cm. Oil on Canvas Michel Maly Fleurs jaunes au vase chinois 80cm x 80cm. Oil on Canvas 0
Michel Maly Sur le fauteuil un chat noir 120cm x 120cm. Oil on Canvas
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